mm . Okay .
All right . Good morning ladies and
gentlemen on behalf of Marine Corps
installations west and the entire
neglect . So cal tech bridge team
Welcome to Marine Corps Air station
Miramar for the electric unmanned
logistics system demonstration .
Obviously at this point , can everybody
hear me okay ? Yes . Yeah .
Mhm .
If you can't hear me , go ahead and
move up closer and if you haven't
visited our welcome table yet , please
do so . Uh , they've got these nice
handouts for you with the schedule of
the day and some Q . R . Codes on the
back that will point you to additional
content about the events . Also
on there are QR codes for our event
survey which we would like for you to
fill out . It's going to give us
feedback on the event and help to gauge
your interest in continued engagement
beyond the event . All right .
I think we need to take a moment to
celebrate the fact that you all are
here . Tell you what , Hey
Jack . For over a year we've been
locked down in our homes . Our home
office is doing a good work . Um , and
you feel comfortable high five your
neighbor and give him a handshake hugs
if your hunger .
All right .
Hey , listen , if anyone gets thirsty ,
you've got some bottled water also by
our table . If you didn't notice on
your way in the restrooms are located
at the entrance to the site . Uh , also ,
I want to highlight the participation .
The the registration for this event was
outstanding . We've got representation
here in the crowd from department
defense . Obviously , uh , federal
agencies California State . We've got
industry and academia . Uh , the
engagement through our registry society
was so good . Uh , we have to shut
down the registration site early . So
thank you for that . Thanks for being
here . Also appreciate all those who
arrived early weathering the rain with .
All right , before we get started , I'm
gonna talk a little bit more about the
black soul contact bridge . I think it
will give you a little bit of
background now . We are able to pull
together events like this 1st . Our
strategy . We leverage
the southern California ecosystem
assets and installations industry
and research to unlock emerging
technology through nontraditional
partnership . Got a really dense
population of military here in the
southern California region . We've got
on our installations , real people ,
real missions trying to solve real
problems . Uh san Diego is the
country's eighth largest city . It
since uh , inside those borders . Right ?
And uh , we boast a pretty large deep
roster of tech companies that are
looking at new technologies , uh ,
those capabilities uh and they're very
diverse and we hope that we learned
through them . And then southern
California has dozens of research
universities constantly exploring new
ideas around these technological
capabilities . We also learn from that .
All right . So we believe
that a collaborative market can be
established enables mutually beneficial
opportunities . We're D O . D . And
commercial industry a partner . This
collaborative market is the foundation
for a better business model which
unlocks the future of D . O . D . R and
D . Requirements , development and
prototyping . The result is what you
see here today on display . We have
five more strategic technology areas ,
electric mobility , energy resilience ,
unmanned logistics , counter
intrusion , unmanned
aerial systems , traffic management .
Actually , the 6th is five Jean . How
can you miss that thing ? Like we
have strategic partners here across all
those technology areas and we hope that
you go and we can talk to them because
they will unlock your imagination about
the future of the battlefield . Each of
our efforts to so cal tech bridge have
to accomplish at least two things .
First , close our knowledge gaps around
the technology being explored . Second ,
identify the applicable concepts of uh
employment around that technology
across national defense . This
morning , you will see a demonstration
of electric and unmanned vehicles
delivering logistics on the battlefield
Connected by 5G and complemented
by counter intrusion and US traffic
management capabilities . After
the demonstration , we hope that you
will go visit all of our partners and
learn more about more from them about
their companies , their technology and
their concept of employment , what they
see their technology doing for us in
the future . Mhm . Following that , we
will pull out 10 states literally and
figuratively and move over to the main
side Miramar to talk about the modeling ,
simulation and market forecast that
inform our future . I want to
personally thank all of our
demonstration partners . Okay , just
please give a round of hand . Now they
have done just an amazing job setting
up . They've been
planning for months to come out here
and show you what they've got for us on
the battlefield , uh , instrumental
helping to see the future as well . So
with that , please turn your attention
to Lieutenant Colonel New who will lead
us on a journey and in the future .
No .
Yeah .
Okay . Mhm . All right , welcome
everyone . So thanks to the major Steve
Harvey . If he didn't mention it , he
is are the legacy . He will take over
this program as I depart , uh , Friday
actually have a retirement ceremony on
Friday . And so thank you . It's
been a great 20 years . Um , and this
is no better way to send out then
everything that we've been working as a
group , um industry and partners across
the Department of Defense , across
federal government , local state
government , and then in the industry
as well . It's meant to steve mentioned ,
unlock all of our imagination as to
where things are going in the future .
So what you're going to be seeing today
is about unmanned logistics on the
battlefield , a two year program that's
been sponsored by Officer Secretary
Defense for operational Energy . And so
we're going to show you the technology .
And as steve mentioned , it's never
about just the technology . It's also
about the new concept of employment of
how that technology transforms our
warfighting functions in the future .
And so to illustrate this , I wanted to
share a few things from my experience
in the Marine Corps 2003 .
Very first thing I did in the Marine
Corps after a year and a half about
training was mass on the border of
kuwait on the way to what we call the
march to Baghdad . General
James Mattis at the time was
the first Marine division commander .
You all know him over the previous
years as the Secretary of Defense , you
may have known from president trump at
the time , his call sign the sum was
mad dog . We knew him as chaos .
Uh huh . Chaos was once famously said
in an interview , what keeps you up at
night about the enemy ? And he said
the enemy stays up at night worried
about me . And that is the spirit with
which maneuver warfare takes hold on
the battlefield and it's about
disrupting your adversary , is about
taking the fight to your adversary .
And so as a young second lieutenant
massed on the border 2003 ,
knowing that we had to get to Baghdad
the longest stretch with the fastest
mission that had ever been attempted by
a traditional force . The whole thing
was about speed . It was about hitting
the center of gravity of
Iraq , which was the power structure
which was getting to Baghdad quickly .
Saddam Hussein thought it would be like
desert storm and desert shield where we
would bomb for months where we'd have
an air campaign over him for months ,
Okay , we were going to disrupt that
model in his mind set and not fight
through every city and take every city .
It was about speed and agility , so
young Second Lieutenant 2003 , Who's
with 11th Marines , which is out of
Camp Pendleton here locally . It's an
artillery headquarters . Artillery is
essentially the canons of today , so
we're bounding , we've broken into
alpha and bravo teams and we're
bounding as fast as possible . Infantry
units are passing through strongholds ,
disrupting certain , you know , power
structures are strongholds by the enemy ,
it was all about the speed of getting
to Baghdad . Chaos . General Mattis
famously fired one of his kernels that
was commanding his regiment because the
colonel was not going fast enough .
That was that was how we were gonna win
that war . So as we're doing this where
I think we're about 10 days , two weeks
into this , we're bounding forward ,
bounding forward to Baghdad . We have
just set up 11th marines were bounded
forward . You're always trying to be
out in front with your communications
so that you can maintain the
communications with your firing
batteries . We set up founded forward
on the edge , the furthest north
element . Okay , we are not heavily
weaponized as a unit . Mm We realize
that we are the furthest 4th Forward
and we get a call that says pack it up .
Everyone's got to pull back , we need
you all to pull back about 50
kilometers a mass on an interstate .
For a tactical pause . The logistics
couldn't keep up . We had outpaced our
logistics on the battlefield . We
thought it was about the war fighting
functions of manoeuvre . We thought it
was about communications but logistics
could not keep up with the fastest
largest movement a traditional force
had ever done . And so what do we do
when the name was speed ? When the way
we were gonna win it and maneuver
maneuver warfare in the battlefield
with speed ? We hadn't take a tactical
pause for four days and we sat on the
side of the road . Mhm . Now imagine
if we were facing a near peer
competitor . Mm Imagine if we were
facing whatever a fight where we did
not have air superiority . Yeah , So
this is 2003 very first experience I
had in the Marine Corps . First thing
that we ever did um at my time . And so
it is shaped how I have seen the Marine
Corps . It is shaped what I thought .
Our true enemy was our true enemy was
us . Our true enemy . Enemy was our
bureaucracy or lack of change or lack
of agility on the battlefield or lack
of agility and research and development ,
our lack of agility , an acquisition .
And so what we have created here with
the so cal tech bridge is A R and D .
Mhm . And what we have facilitated with
technology companies like you see here
today and concepts of employment that
we are unlocking is agile operation
because it is about the next fight . It
is about what the true strength of this
nation is . It's that each and every
one of us striving for a better place
in our own lives , taking chances and
risk . Whether you're at a company ,
whether you're in academia or whether
you use the uniform , that's our true ,
true competitive advantage against our
adversaries . And we have to tear down
the walls between the methodical
bureaucratic way in which we
unlock research and development if
we're really gonna see agile operations
on the battlefield . And so with that
we have set up here with our partners .
Excuse me . Okay . Mhm .
An electric and connected battlefield .
It's gonna highlight for you
self driving in the war fighting
function of logistics . And so there's
an acronym that I want you to hold as
you go through and hear about this
scenario as you meet with the different
companies . It's Alex
A L . E . C . Autonomy ,
Logistics as a world fighting function
as an application energy and
connected . So we've set up a scenario
here trying to block the wind as much
as I can . We've set up a scenario with
Act one and Act two where we're going
to walk you through these phases and
that's one we're going to show you what
you see in front of you as an electric
and connected patrol base of the future .
Now it's not painted green , I'm
painted green . I'm up here
representing that . We're not worried
about the integration right now . We're
not worrying about the weaponizing
right now , what we're worried about is
unlocking the imagination as to where
the technology and where human
potential brings us with the technology
moving forward . So with
that in Acts One we're talking electric
and connected battlefield represented
by the companies you see here today ,
I'll walk you through each of those
areas and each of the technology In Act
two . We're gonna do the a and the al
economy yourself driving with logistics
and so you'll see the scenario that
robotic research walks us through on
how we do a resupply mission . And then
that leads us into AC three . AC 3 is
about you all we call these events
collision events . It's about us all
colliding with the technology and us
all colliding with each other . And so
the factory is about you mingling with
each of the company's mingling with
each other . Why would our program
and I host an event on the last couple
of days of me wearing a uniform because
it was never about me and it was never
about our program . It was about you .
It was about tearing down the walls
between industry , between different
federal entities , between state and
local government . As I mentioned , so
tomorrow we're actually having the
electric mobility symposium that
scenario and that have been is all
focused on commercial applications of
energy and mobility and connectivity
capabilities that will see on our basis
under our program installation next .
And so these events are collision
events because it's really about you
colliding with each other , you
colliding with the imagination to see
what the future looks like , you
colliding and creating opportunity for
us all . So with that
I'm gonna walk you through an overview
of each of the companies that are here
and why we've invited them and so you
have a framework to this representation
of electric and connected battlefield
of the future . So let me start with
connected . So we obviously have a
huge red truck to my right here .
This is called for Verizon has been
pretty hush hush about four until
recently , maybe the last month or so .
Have they been talking publicly about
thor Now , why would rise and
four here on a flatbed truck from New
Jersey for this event and for
tomorrow's event . Mhm . Mhm . Why
would they take the time to set it up
here when we're talking about the
battlefield ? So what we have with
Verizon is a collaborative research and
development agreement through the
pacific yeah That is what enables the
5G . Living lab that we've stood up on
this base with Verizon . It's set up
has a commercial network .
Five G . Is about a network not about a
wave form . And so the Foundation is
four G . L . T . What you and I have
come to you know rely on with our
smartphones you know for years now
but that is not The future of what
cellular and 5G networks is about .
That is the foundation . five G surged
into a 4G network with isolated
pockets of connectivity , high
bandwidth , low latency for the
internet of things unlocked for our
community , for our personal lives and
even for the battlefield . And so with
this We are installing on Miramar . We
publicly announced it last summer with
the very first turn on of a 5G note on
any military base , We have 26 small
cells On main side Miramar 5G small
cells . The first two are installed
will be at one tomorrow and actually
this afternoon you'll see it The other
24 being installed as we speak . And so
we have a 5G network that is not about
your cellphone working better but it's
about the capabilities that it's
unlocking for us , both commercially on
installations and on the battlefield .
And so we built our five G program ,
five G . Living around Maggie Living
lab around four different enabled
technology areas that were priorities
to us . Connected vehicles was one of
them autonomous vehicles doing , you
know , movement of people and movement
of package . So you'll hear more about
that mm drones is another we learned
through our relationship with qualcomm
years ago that the future of drones is
not just an R . F . Remote control but
it will actually be soil . And so the
access that we have as a partner with
Verizon is allowing us to understand
the networks that are going to back
that and what's so critical about those
networks , we have another area we call
Digital Fortress . I'll talk to you
more about that when we talk about and
Real Industries , a strategic partner
of ours in the digital fortress for
counter intrusion and then our board
areas energy connectivity or energy
communications . And so you'll see some
of that here and you'll see more of
that next week are tomorrow . So with
this partnership with the collaboration
that we have the pilot together with
Verizon , it's incubated the type of
relationship that allows Verizon and us
to dream up these things . The dream of
how we could bring thor that's built
for disaster relief around the country .
Imagine a hurricane , a tornado and
earthquake and cellular connectivity is
down . Our first responders gonna be
able to respond and take care of us as
a community Verizon's built forward to
be able to do that . To be able to roll
into regions like that . Now . What a
great access that we have as we think
about a similar scenario as we would go
on a mission for humanitarian
assistance around the world . Or we
would actually go into a kinetic fight
around the world where cellular would
be critical . So we're
excited to have with us here today .
Prince Doran and Tom Collins who are
leading the Marine Course five G . Free
HBO program , The HBO that is
expeditionary advanced basing operation .
That is the Marine Corps is war
fighting concept of the future . And so
they lead our program for the Marine
Corps on how we're going to leverage
cellular technology on the battlefield .
I was recently interviewed for how many
of you know , dozens of pieces that
I've been interviewed for lately . And
one of the questions was about
now I forget where was I going with
that ? Oh It was
about why are we doing all of this with
5G . We talked about the fact that
the traditional wave forms that we use
in the Marine Corps have largely been
invested in and built by government
dollars and defense industry dollars .
Meanwhile the cellular connectivity
that have made us also productive in
our personal lives and you also
productive in your professional life
has been cut out to us in the
government . It was seen as a threat .
It was seen as unsecured , a cyber
vulnerability . And so the billions of
dollars of R . And D distributed across
capitalism in this country and
worldwide that has gone into making
that pocket size computer
so effective to your daily life . The
bureaucracy had it outside our arms
late could not realize that capability .
When federally we made over the last
couple years , five G . A national
priority and national imperative That
we would be a leader in 5G from a
commercial perspective And we would be
a leader in 5G . From an adoption
perspective , when we saw that , that
was a threat to our place in the world ,
that our adversaries would be
installing And leading the charge into
5G . I reminded that
October 2019 I went to
Germany on a trade mission san Diego
Trade mission to Germany , the U . S .
Consulate met with us and the
first thing they said to our group
Bolcom's there . Um U . C . San Diego
is their economic development
corporation here from San Diego is
there there's like 50 of us from San
Diego representing the region , the U .
S . Consulate mess with us . And the
first thing they said is that they
petitioned the german government every
day . Mhm . Don't allow away in your
infrastructure . It's a vulnerability .
It's not just about us as a nation .
It's a vulnerability to our allies as
well . And so you could imagine
the fire that could in our belly here
to push forward and fight the
bureaucracy on installing our five G
living lab on facilitating capabilities
like this , on unlocking our
imagination as to what five G was going
to do . Not because it is communication
for communications site . I'm a
communications office . Communications
with an enabling capability . It's
about enabling the types of
capabilities that you're going to see
here today . So it's not just about
yourself on , it's not just about a
network and that's why we have to set
up collision events like this that
bring all of us together to understand
the I'm seeing Gary from dana just to
understand how connectivity and the
network is going to enable his mobile
power systems that I'm standing on
right now . How it's going to enable
robotic research and the autonomy ,
self driving capabilities . They did
somebody stop that wind indeed .
Mhm So very grateful to have
Verizon and thor here , grateful for
the opportunity for you all to see what
that capability is . They have great
storylines and they have great
applications for you to understand
That's why we set up that Act three .
Mhm
I'm like american idol . Whenever they
get to the they take the mic
Outstanding . Always gotta move that
back . All right , let me talk about
the next stage of connectivity . The
connected battlefield Again , it's
about what it's connecting and enabling .
So we have Andolino industries here .
Taylor Williams will be talking more do
you all about Andrew's capability back
in March . We had a collision event
around counter intrusion here on
Miramar . We're actually up in the high
terrain back there in the location .
That's very hard for our military
police to maintain . Over
2/3 of Miramar is here on the East .
Miramar under our approach to the
airfield . I'm shocked that we haven't ,
I haven't had to pause 100 times yet
for all the aircraft flying of it , but
it will come . So this is strategic
land for us . Even though it looks
sparse , our military police , some of
you tried to come in our north gate ,
which is largely closed now because of
the lack of manpower that we have to
maintain that as a gate . So we don't
talk about counter intrusion as
replacing people . We talk about
counter truths and as enabling people
making them more effective in their
mission , making them more focused on
what they need to be doing . And so how
do you maintain security across the
vast land like this looks a lot like a
battlefield . From my perspective ,
it's not by roving patrols of the
military police in a patrol car with no
focused mission , but just hoping we
run into something . It's through
sensor suites with artificial
intelligence and machine learning
better have connectivity through
cellular That are touching the cloud .
And actually showing us the threat
posture of are based locally to the
military police . Regionally showing me
my threat posture on the coastline of
Camp Pendleton , 30 miles north of here
with our maritime counter intrusion
portfolio and showing us counter drone
that's getting installed on this base
as well , all under enduro industries .
All as a strategic partner with us at
the tech bridge here for so cow .
These are on different contracts with
different stakeholders and different
funding sources across D . O . D . But
this is what we do as a tech bridge is
unlocked . These opportunities to see
that it's not individual portfolios ,
what is actually performing across the
entire threat posture of a base . And
so we want you to hear all about that .
Thank you for holding on to the tent as
the wind picks up . Air map is
here . Air map is another strategic
partner of ours does us or drone
traffic management . We had a roadmap
here years ago helping us an air
traffic control understand
that they the airspace from
approvals and tracking a friendly
drought first step in understanding
what's an unfriendly wrong encounter us .
Yeah . We also have them here under
their defense innovation unit under
their defense Innovation unit , D . I
you program called Air boss
dynamic unmanned
route and controls of drones on the
battlefield . So we want you to hear
all about that . Mm All right . That's
the connected side on the electric side .
The other aspect here . So I'm
obviously standing on again mobile
power system . This same capability is
that space andrews and seeing all of
the applications they can do with the
heavy equipment modules that are on
these that come with this platform .
They're seeing what they can do with
250 kilowatt hours or 500 kilowatt hour
of energy storage on a rolling
platform for energy resilience of a
base where I traditionally put a
generator that I never turn on outside
every single building to provide
resilience and so you can see
the future as we move away from
internal combustion , injured . It's
not a one for one swap that is a
purpose built platform . Every time I'm
going to do a front loader , I'm gonna
do a back , oh I'm gonna do a bulldozer ,
I'm gonna do a generator online . What
you have here in these electric
platforms of the future are dynamic ,
they're modular , their mobile , they
are a portfolio driven platform and
that is the true unlock that we want
you to see with the electric
battlefield of the future . We want you
to see that exportable energy off of a
platform like this changes how we see
energy traditionally only fuel
requirement generator on the distant
end . How that changes fuel this are ,
changes energy distribution across the
battlefield of the future . We also
have Pollinger but they're awesome
truck . So we were looking at different
platforms with robotic research in this
iterative design program about what
we're going to build our unmanned Zara .
And so we were scouring the country for
the best in breed . That would be great
partners in what we developed . It .
Came down to the data in the volunteer
with doing that . And so we have
fostered relationship with both
actually in coming here today . And so
we are so excited for you learn more ,
not just about the truck . What about
the electric chassis that's under the
truck that can enable modular
builds for different purpose built
purpose design mission . That is the
true unlock of electric platform ,
electric skateboards , electric chassis ,
all with exportable energy as well . We
also want you to see being in the back
team is a local company , been a great
partner in , in standing up this . Uh ,
these two events this week , we've been
doing energy charging for years . We've
been doing solar for years on bases .
2000 nine through 2013 . I was a
technology lead for energy on the
Battlefield for the Marine Corps
Expeditionary . We're developing hybrid
systems , renewable systems for the
battlefield so we reduce our logistics
burden For the battle that I'll talk to
you more about that in Act two . What
you have here is a non infrastructure ,
modular dynamic capability that was
just set up yesterday that can charge
infrastructure . Don't worry about the
form factor , worry about the concept
of employment to that . So what we've
tried to highlight here is great
partners and we tried to help show
everyone that the battlefield of the
future is electric and connect what we
have right here is the static
representation of what I would call a
patrol base . Again . Don't worry about
the integration . Don't worry about
painted green and weaponized . Worry
about the unlocked to the capability
that will see in the future . And so as
we transition now to act to let me just
pause , make sure I didn't miss
anything . Right ? So as we
transition back to , we're gonna
set up this logistic scenario that you
understand just how things are changing .
Give Me one SEC . Are we clear with ?
What was that ?
Yeah . So what what major harvey's
pointing out is that you're going to
see a lot of movement on this side . So
feel freedom to move . If you're
sitting , you'll see it uh you'll be
able to see all of this . Okay . So let
me set the stage for Act two autonomy
and logistics .
Okay . Mhm .
Mhm . Mhm . Yeah . All right . What you
see now is a representation of a squad
getting in our Ballenger bon Jovi in an
all electric platform really becomes a
mobile command operations center for a
squad level unit in our minds or a fire
team . And so as they move into
position , we , the patrol base here
Have sent them out on a mission . Let's
say they're 10 km away . Let's say
they're 15 , 20 km away . We're sending
them on a mission that was dynamically
designed and planned this morning and
they're going out . And so as we send
them out and you can cue them to get in
position .
So we're representing how mobile and
modular that worked for . I mean that
we're fighting capability is in the
future . You're also seeing how quiet
it is . Yeah . You're seeing that the
battlefield becomes much more agile
into the future . And so you can
imagine that they're going out on a
large missing . That if they're
changing their mission sets over and
over and we don't know where they're
going to end up each time . Well , we
know that they need to be resupplied ,
whether they've been out for a week ,
whether they've been out for two days .
We don't know what type of capability
that you're gonna need , but we know
that they are going to require
logistics on the battle . And so as we
set up that scenario , that's the
supply , that's the demand side of your
resupply modular force all over the
battlefield today , how we do it ?
It's very , very slow . It's very man
intensive . And so let me quickly paint
a picture . 2009 ,
2010 , 2014 .
Time and time after . I'm in in
Afghanistan Where were bogged down as a
slow 2nd army where were fighting off a
patrol basis where we're fighting off ,
you know , uh forward operating bases .
We're planning missions . As soon as
we know , we need to do a resupply . It
requires a driver . The second we
design a resupply that requires a
driver that risk to life starts to
compound . I put a secondary and a
driver in the seat next to the driver
and I say the risk is so great not to
my resupplies but to my work , to my
warfighting function , to my
warfighters that I cause it all . And
so in a man scenario I keep slowing
down . I want to aggregate these
different scenarios , what you're
seeing as I talk . It's our unmanned
logistics system in the in the
foreground background . How do you say
that ? So it's moving autonomously . It
is not remote control , it is has
waypoints , it is sensing its
environment and it is moving with its
resupplies to a location that I told it
to go . It's represented by where the
squad just pause where I thought they
would be . But as you saw , I had to
send them out on a different mission .
That's our resupply point . We marked
it on the ground . My vehicles going to
that location now , it's going to drive
up on you in a moment . So what we're
talking about here is the difference
between dynamic response ,
this aggregated logistics or
distributed operations versus how we
have been fighting in Afghanistan for
years where I build up a convoy , where
I put a gun truck in front of the
convoy and put a gun truck in behind
the convoy because the risk of life is
so great that I say , let me not just
go to one patrol base , Let me out
create a wagon wheel route that's gonna
hit patrol base alpha and then bravo
and then charlie . So let me aggregate
all those goods . What do we do ? We
became slow . We became bulky . We
actually turned our vehicles into You
don't quasi tech thinking that the risk
from IEDs was going to be defeated by
armor , is defeated by agility by
being agile on the battlefield . And so
the scenario that you have here is you
cannot fight unmanned logistics . The
same way we fought Mandala Gist . It
has to be a new concept of employment .
It can't be done the same way . I'm not
going to aggregate a bunch of unmanned
platforms and have them go in a convoy ,
aggregating . All my risk to goods
making moment are vulnerable . No , the
real unlocked here is the dynamic
nature to the war fighting function
that we're doing . And so as the
unmanned logistics system pauses in the
wash , so it's out on his mission ,
it's doing the resupply here at the
command center for the patrol base .
Were we understand that you saw the one
sailor that got out representing a fire
team went out into the bus . They're
critically low and battery , they are
requiring a resupply and batteries now .
And so as our platform is out on its
mission , we say , we know we have
batteries , we have batteries on that
platform and we're going to take that
off . So with that the
Pegasus is lost . So here I
couldn't fly it because we're we could
not get the clearance in the airspace
right now to fly the drone . But our
awesome partners , that robotic
research don't just have a drone that
flies . They have the Pegasus that has
tracks as well . So let's say that the
resupply needed to happen and we wanted
it to land somewhere else . I didn't
want to show where my fire team was in
the bush . I didn't want to give away
the location to the surrounding area .
And so it landed with the battery and
then drove onto its mission . That's
also energy . Because the way I want to
optimize this platform is that it's not
just about white because flight takes a
lot more energy onto the batteries .
That it can actually do a lot of its
mission on the ground . And so
extending the range . So what robotic
research has installed in the in the
Pegasus is a magnetic claw that holds
onto a battery . You can pause it there .
We already get the battery . My fire
team came out . Okay , I missed it . So
so that was the resupply mission . It
was so concealed that I missed it from
up here . Uh huh . The point that we're
trying to show here is that it's not a
static battlefield . Logistics cannot
be a static warfighting function . It
has to be dynamic on the battlefield as
we create more and more distributed
operations with agile operations to
defeat a near pier where we don't have
air superiority , we cannot grow and
bulk up in patrol bases where we are
known vulnerability , where we enhance
our vulnerabilities and so with that we
need dynamic distributed capabilities
and we believe and we have shown
through this program that unmanned
logistics is the way we're going to do
that . Now we stay on the distant edge .
I'm not showing you scenario here with
a large army style forward operating
base . Our most vulnerable in the tip
of the spear , the hardest for us to
resupply is at the edge of the
battlefield , convoys give us a way
convoy slow us down just like I was
slowed down on the march to Baghdad
convoys make us predictable just like
we were in Afghanistan with IEDs over
and over and so what we're showing you
here is that these unmanned logistic
systems will be fought differently ,
that they will keep up with the
battlefield as distributed off
our integrated more and more . So this
is the same data platform that I'm
standing on now but that's been
outfitted by robotic researches ,
technology that we see in commercial
and defence applications to be
automated . It is self driving as we
speak . So it's coming on the
resupply point right now
it's carrying the logistics that we
send it out on its mission on . And so
now after the secondary mission that
our squad conducted there now sinking
back up with that platform .
Thank you .
Well we have represented in the boxes M .
R . S . Meals ready to eat , so that's
a re supply of food . We have ammo cams
representing the ammunition that needed
to be resupplied . You see coming off
the side , it's five gallon jerry cans ,
we call them with water and then we
even have a battery pack or another
program that's coming off and that can
stay with them . Now at this point we
did not plan this well , we realized
the secondary mission for that
volunteer squad depleted their battery .
The Pollinger need to recharge .
Traditionally I'd be sending out fuel
to this location . I would have to plan
it before . But now because of
exportable energy , because of the
modular dynamic mission set that these
electric platforms have on the
battlefield , we can dynamically meet
the demand signal and we decide , look ,
I've got enough energy and the unmanned
just exist them to get it back home . I
can prioritize some of that energy to
now transfer what we call exportable
energy onto the balances . And so I am
now enabling them to the next mission .
They do not have to return to my patrol .
I've set them up for the mission after
mission at that point . And so as they
recharge again , dynamically deciding
all of these different value streams on
the battlefield . What is my
prioritization for the connectivity ?
What is my prioritization for energy ?
What is my prioritization for the
potential energy in that ? In that
mobile power ? Since do I have another
mission for it ? Do I have another
resupply mission ? How many assets do I
have on that platform ? How many would
I prioritize to this squad versus the
next squad I want to support . And so
this scenario is meant to unlock your
imagination of how we do this in the
Howell logistics keep up with
distributed operations across the
battle . And so we thought
That concludes our Act two of selling
the resupply . I want you to envision
now that the Danner ,
whether it's this one or that one
reason is coming back , I don't have a
huge fuel depot here that I had to
support with long lines , sometimes
contractors to resupply me in the
region . But energy in a grid
potential energy in that form is
ubiquitous . The battlefield of the
future is largely urban . It is in
locations that has cellular , it is in
locations that has gripped . I want us
to understand scavenging opportunity
on that battlefield of the future . I
always joke for 20 years that in the
Marine Corps where the gypsies of the
Battlefield , everything we need has to
come with us . And so we had to design
capabilities that can go to Afghanistan
in the middle of the summer or go to
north Korea in the middle of the winter .
Over and over , I had to build this
capability set that I didn't know where
I go in and around the world . Now ,
as we see the battlefield of the future ,
is it a technological environment ?
How can we capitalize on that ? If I'm
on a humanitarian assistance mission ,
I'm responding to an earthquake . 2010 ,
I was in Haiti 10 days after the
earthquake . There . Palace crumble .
No infrastructure , no power , no
communication . How can I roll in on
that mission When when it is a
welcoming country ? When the government
is welcoming us to come to help them
humanitarian assistance mission ? And
so what if they had parts of their
grids that I could actually ask to you
so that I can take advantage of the
host nation ? They enabled our
capability to help them ? What if they
had a cellular networks that were still
active ? What if we didn't have to set
up all of our own network and we could
ask for that permission ? What do we
need to know about that network ? What
do we need to know about the grid to
interface with this technology now ?
What about the invasion ? Iraq That's
not a compliant host nation . That's an
invasion . What if the speed and
agility I need is not setting up
antenna farm . Not setting up all my
own network . Not setting up power
distribution and fuel distribution .
Fuel chain . What if I can scavenge ?
What if I could scavenge in such a way
that they didn't even know I was
scavenging this is what we do in the so
cal tech . We unlocked what the
future application is of the battle .
We unlocked not in a single platform ,
not in a suite of platform . We
unlocked in the concept of employment .
They're going to optimize those
capabilities on the battle and so can
I get a time hack steve . Mhm
We could factory . Okay . Uh
So before we do act 3 um where's
brian ? I miss brian's part right now .
So brian is going to come up and talk
to you more . Hopefully you all it's
all this has been an intuitive design
program over two years . The capability
you saw here was first designed a year
ago and we demonstrated in july it was
a completely different ground vehicle .
It had two drones on it wanted to be
the eyes in the sky and wanted to be
the resupply drum you all in your
packet as you were coming . Should have
seen the demonstration of that last
year and how we took that on an eight
wheel nut . That was a Army mission
built , fight more system of system .
We took that and started designing what
this future looks like . But then we
took that feedback from that collision
event last summer and we design the
next round , we needed a more capable
electric and connected platform . So
brian from robotic research is going to
talk to us a little bit about the
innovative design that we did ,
incorporating their other programs from
other sponsors into the capability that
we were showing today . Yeah .
Oh yeah .
Mhm . Mhm wow , mm
Behind , yep . All right , good morning .
So I'd like to take a little bit of
time to give you the non engineering
approach . You're the non engineering
explanation of what you saw with this
demonstration and some of that
technology . Um , when , when we think
about autonomous vehicles are automated
vehicles , a lot of times were thinking
on road applications , the lane keeping
the cruise control kind of applications ,
uh , that that type of role is a
structured environment , is defined
roads , lane markings , infrastructure ,
those kind of things . What you saw
today is an off road autonomy . Your
off road capability is a much more
complicated problems . You're dealing
with complex terrain , you're dealing
with rough terrain , maybe rocks on the
trail , it's unstructured and we don't
know what that terrain looks like
before we get there . So the system has
to be able to navigate . That terrain
has to be able to understand what's
ahead of the vehicle . It has to be
able to understand the vehicles ,
capabilities , the vehicle size , what
it can cross , what it can't cross and
make decisions based on what is the
best ability for the best capability
for that vehicle to negotiate the
terrain again , all that is done in
real time and it's done without
previous knowledge . So that is a part
different challenge than what we
normally think about autonomy . Um This
is a a capability that robotic research
has been developing for Nearly 20 years .
It's kind of where the company started
on the off road side and develop that
ability to navigate off road . And
we are now leveraging that on more
commercial on road programs using that
experience and knowledge from
navigating off road . So what that
benefits in . It's less need for
infrastructure on the road that's neat
main markets and those kind of things
are necessary . So on this project , as
for Ronald mentioned last year , you're
familiar with the project , We had an
eight wheel mud running autonomously
with to Pegasus in the air Today we
demonstrated the ground capability that
it has two modalities and that was the
ground side of it . So much more one
time . Said another way to use that
platform , demonstrated the data
platform and I'd like to thank our
engineering team on this one . We've
had the vehicle for roughly four months
and been able to integrate our
technology economists in a very short
order uh four months ago that vehicle
had no sense of kid on it . We so the
lessons learned from the last project
or you're one of the project integrated
on the vehicle and now we were able to
run it today completely unmanned . So I
think that's a really good accomplish
who does the table now . Um and this
technology , it evolves in other
platforms , it's not just for data
platform or in april month we have a
variety of platforms and programs right
now , for example , running on logging
roads in Canada moving timber from the
forest to the milk . We have projects
where we're that's too sand from my
mind site . There's a variety of ways
that this technology can be used not
only on this base in the approach phase ,
but in a commercial application grow .
So maybe key takeaways are , it's a
very scalable technology where people
agnostic on what this gets put on that
is very adopted .
Mhm . Right . So
I wanted to highlight there , but this
is not traditional R and D . We call
this A R and D . A R and D is the only
thing that's going to enable an agile
operation
sandwiched between those two things his
acquisition unless we get agile
acquisitions , right , We will never
realize opportunity of a jar and the
into agile operas . And so that's why
it becomes so imperative that you all
are immersed in these capabilities that
you all see the fruit and the
opportunity , the ones that we don't
even see as a team . The intuitive
design of this program has been
intentional all along . What was the
operational energy ? Miss Ruth , Ann
Darling , who's funded this program for
the last two years , broke her leg last
week . Uh , Dr paul Jaffe is gonna
represent them on the panel later . But
they took a chance on us . We were
talking about unlocking emerging
technology . We were talking about uber
elevate electric , vertical takeoff and
landing air taxis that you've been
hearing about In 2016 , 2017 . We were
talking about the early adoption of
that on the battlefield would be for
logistics . We're talking about our
access to Fedex and ups and others in
the commercial space and understanding
this vision that they had in the future .
That Fedex truck would roll into your
neighborhood unmanned and then a suite
of drones would fly off and bring a
package down to your front door , a
teeming effect . This is how we have to
think of the future . And it can't just
be those portfolios . It can't just be
the individual platforms . It's got to
be the enablement behind , got to be
the election and it's got to be the
connected that's going to enable that
and it won't happen on its own . The
concepts of employment critical
whenever you do requirements ,
development , acquisition in the
government . It all starts with a key
performance parameters , key systematic ,
it starts with understanding not just
how the technology works , but how is
it thought , how is it operated ?
What's it used for ? And that's the
only way we get to that future . Not
just a swap a man vehicle for an
unmanned No , it's a whole new war
fighting and we believe that the so cal
tech breaks , the only way to do that
is through our collaborative markets .
The only way to do that is taking the
precedent set with our partners in
their commercial applications . Are
there other programs and pulling them
forward into the defense effort ?
Thinking about how Verizon is going in
my terms fight door in a disaster
across the nation . And what can we
learn from how they fight it when they
built it and they secured it ? What can
we learn about Danner , applying their
capabilities on work sites around the
country or in Joint Base andrews ? What
can we learn about the electric vehicle ,
electric truck unlocked from
bollenbecker and companies like it
across the and so that's why it's
so critical That all of you take this
time and what we're calling Act three
is to immerse yourself . We want you to
mingle , we want you to ask all the
questions , we create this space , this
collaborative market that facilitates D .
O . D . And industry's ability to come
together . And so With that we'll turn
into Act three . what time do we
have going into lunch and then
the other side . Okay . All
right , so we're going to culminate
this part at 11:30 pm So we'll hop up
and announce that closure at 11:30 At
1300 . That's one o'clock over on main
side of the other site . Some of you
already seen that site early this
morning . Um , that's where we're
picking back up . We're going to talk
about how we did intuitive design and
what it means to the future and that
we're not just saying , Here you go ,
you're on your own . How our next
strategy team from Qena is going to
help you going to take this forward
with you , enable you as to these
implications . And then we're going to
show you from our partner greek . W how
do these capabilities of unmanned
logistics portfolios go onto the
battlefield ? We have a modeling and
sim an analysis program where we
actually show an unclassified version
of a fight in the pacific And then how
do we do logistics on that fight ? And
then when we replaced our man convoys
with unmanned logistic systems , what
are the 2nd and 3rd order effects on
the battlefield from those capabilities ?
And so we want you to see all that . We
want that to be the tools and the
potter and the m pro that you take from
here . We talked about you All arriving
has opened an eager audience . We want
to we want to launch you out at the end
of day inspired as free radicals ,
whether you're outside the government
or you're in the government to carry
your version of this future forward and
to unlock it together . And so with
that transition to Act three and uh ,
please meet all the companies ask all
your questions and then go around thank
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let me set the stage for economy and
logistics .
What you see now is representation of a
squad how an
all electric for really become mobile
command operation for a squad level .
Get online horrified . So as they move ,
we the patrol base here . I've sent
them out on a mission . Say there 15:20
away , we're sending MS . That was
dynamically side plant this morning ,
going out as we send them out and you
can get it
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representing how mobile and modular
that work . Fighting ability is in the
future . You also seeing how quiet
you're seeing no location that go
represented by where the squad just
pause , thought they would be . But as
you saw , I had to send them out on a
different . So what we're talking
about here is the difference between
dynamic response disaggregated
logistics or distributed operation
versus how we we've been fighting in
Afghanistan for years where I build up
a convoy , where I put a truck in front
of the convoy . Trucking behind the
because the risk of life is so great
because optimize his platform . That
it's not just about why because flight
takes a lot more energy , the batteries
that it can actually do a lot of its
mission on the ground . But in the
biggest the magnetic claw hold
battery , the scenario here with the
large would operate most
vulnerable and spear hardest for us to
resupply is at the edge of about and
boys us away convoy slow us down . Just
like no the march of the bag
boys because Victim , just like we
were in Afghanistan with IEDs over and
over . So what we're showing you here
that these unmanned , lot different .
They will keep the battle stop
our integrated more and more . So this
that needed to be resupplied .
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sandwiched between his acquisition .
Unless we get agile active . Right ?
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imperative that you all are immersed in
this case . Oh see and the
opportunity . The ones that we
fine graham intentional all along .
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The last two years , her leg last week
dr paul jack represent on the panel .
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talking about emerging
technology we were talking about of a
electric take off and land . Eric said
you've been here and 16 . We
were talking about the early Dobson the
battlefield with people we're talking
about our access to Fedex Yeah . And
others understand they
had the that Fedex truck would roll
into your neighborhood .
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to your don't take yeah .
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it's got table . Hi , it's got it .
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starts with understanding not just how
to take work , but how is it going was
that operate ? That's the only way
we get to that not just a swap
man vehicle for no
fine . You believe right ? That
through our collaborative market only
way to do that is taking the precedent
set with our in their commercial
right ? Holding them
thinking about how Verizon terms fight
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you are they fight no and they security .
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on work sites around the joint place
and learn about the electric electric
truck unlocked from volunteer and
companies like . And so that's why
it's so critical . Take this time and
what we're calling Act three hurts
himself . Want you to make ask all the
questions we create this space , this
collaborative market that facilitates
go so with that
to act three . Yeah . Do we
have going into lunch and then
side . Okay . Right .
So we're going to culminate this part 7
30 . The WO hop up and announce that 11
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out at the end of the day . inspired as
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government or you're in the government ,
carry your version of this future
forward and to unlock it . So with
that transition to Act three and please
meet all the companies , I saw you
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